A Healthier Way of Life

We are a club for everyone, whilst we do focus on the older market and their needs, we also offer the younger market an inclusive, friendly and welcoming atmosphere. Our goal is to provide innovative exercise programmes that keep our members healthy and happy, whatever their age. The movements we teach are ‘whole body’ exercises designed to nourish your entire system. What that means in practice is that while we still want to look after your heart and lungs and keep you strong, we also focus on movement patterns, balance, flexibility, co-ordination, agility, breathing and power – all of which play a major role in helping us to move well and stay fit for life.

Holistic Programming

We offer a wide range of classes and workshops that focus on the whole person. These programmes are hosted in our therapy rooms, the pool-spa area and the holistic studio, which offers a variety of mind-body classes including guided relaxation, yoga and Pilates, meditation and breathing workshops. The aim is to help you discover a peacefulness and empowerment within. Beginners and those with more experience will find support and guidance from our team.

Rest and Relaxation

All the major illnesses including high blood pressure, heart disease, cancers, obesity and diabetes are linked to personal, environmental and social stresses. But in today’s helter-skelter world taking time out is almost perceived as a sign of weakness, when actually the reverse is true, in that well rested individuals perform a lot better in every aspect of life. And of course that means getting good sleep, which seems to become more elusive as we age. So, as counter intuitive as it may seem, we see it as part of our job to encourage you to include a sauna or a gentle swim or a spot of meditation or a coffee with friends in your exercise programme. In fairness, most of our members warm to this philosophy pretty quickly.

Nutrition & Nourishment

We won’t be foisting the ‘cabbage and coconut’ diet on you any time soon but we will encourage you to eat healthily.

That doesn’t mean overloading on rabbit food or foregoing muffins, chips and wine. It just means taking a sensible approach to eating, which may include reducing your sugar intake, increasing healthy fats and aiming to eat more real foods and less processed stuff. To that end we have a great café offering loads of healthy options. Our role in all of this is to provide you with up-to-date information and keep you accountable.

A Sense of Community

There’s an old saying that we at Lanes buy into, which is that people join health clubs to get in shape but they stay because they’ve made new friends. Our experience over 40 years in the club business is that the social programme is the glue that holds everything else together, so with a mantra of ‘meet friends, make friends’ we work hard to provide outlets for as many of your interests as possible. These range from running clubs and a ballroom dancing group to morning coffee, bridge clubs and quiz nights. The sky’s the limit – that’s our astronomy club. (-: